Bamako Under Siege – How Coordinated Attacks Exposed the Mali Government’s Fragility – and Tested the Aes

[African Arguments] The coordinated attacks that shook Mali on 25-27 April 2026 are not an anomaly. They are the culmination of a long, deteriorating security trajectory–one that has steadily eroded state authority, exposed strategic miscalculations, and now threatens to overwhelm national and regional security architectures. At the centre of this crisis lies a troubling reality: Mali is no longer facing a fragmented insurgency. It is confronting an adaptive, coordinated, and increasingly convergent threat ecosystem–one

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